The next morning Draco woke to the sweet smell of bacon and eggs wafting in his nose. Slowly he rose out of bed, combing his hair so it sat slick on his head, and putting on his school uniform and robes. Cautiously, he exited his bedroom searching for the cause of the sweet smell.
"Good morning" chirped Hermione from the small kitchen, not turning her body from the eggs and Bacon she was cooking with her wand.
"Morning" mumbled Draco in return. He wasn't sure how to act around Hermione after the night previous. He still couldn't believe what had happened. He liked Hermione, he really did, but they had both been so daring, it was odd, and Draco was even a bit shy. He decided the best way to act would be in flirtatious way, as too make Hermione more shy then him, in hopes to make him feel better about his own feelings.
"I've made some breakfast," said Hermione as Draco took a seat on the large arm chair "you can have some if you like" he turned away from the food for a second to smile at him
"What like 'morning after' breakfast" he said with a cocky grin. Hermione flushed as she turned quickly back to the food
"No I just thought you'd be hungry" she mumbled still blushing remembering the previous night's events. The food finished cooking and Hermione brought it to the coffee table placing a plate in front of Draco as she took a seat on the couch.
"Mm this is really good," said Draco tasting her cooking
"Thanks" she said not looking up from her plat. Draco chuckled lightly at the fact that Hermione was embarrassed and shy, so he decided to embarrass her further
"But you no what tastes better?" he asked grasping her attention, she looked to him and shook her head no shoveling a part of the egg into her mouth "your lips" he whispered in a sexy voice that caused Hermione to nearly choke on her food. She coughed violently rubbing her arms in embarrassment
"Oh-um.. Ha.. Uh thanks" she mumbled "yours... um- too?" she said questioningly attempting at a compliment. Draco smiled as he appreciated the attempt
"Thanks Hermione" he said almost darkly.
"So um about today, what's the deal?" Draco looked at her confused "well you know we have to pretend like nothing happened" she said as if it were completely obvious
"Oh. Yeah, I mean. We can do that, just carry on like we usually do," he said slowly. Hermione nodded
"You need to be mean to me," she said quickly
"What?"
"Well don't you think the others will suspect something if you're acting as though something has changed, if you're being… well nice?"
"That makes sense…" Draco looked down, he didn't want to be mean to Hermione
"Draco it's fine," she said moving so she sat close to him "I don't care, I promise no matter what you say I won't be hurt. You're going to have to call me a mudblood, and you're going to have to be rude to my friends and me. There's no need to make then curious" Draco nodded silently. Then he looked up at Hermione smiling lightly
"Alright, just know I don't mean any of it, okay?"
"Okay" Hermione grinned, it would be hard to hear him acting as though nothing went on between them, but at least it they could still be together after hours in their common room. Hermione blushed at the thought. "We better be getting to our first class" she said gathering the dishes and placing them on the small counter, she turned almost slamming in to Draco hard body. He bent down and placed a gently kiss on Hermione's lips. She felt her breath leave her body as he took her off guard, the kiss was very gentle and caring, and it made every molecule in Hermione's body jump with joy. Draco pulled away slowly ending the kiss. He grabbed her hand and squeezed tightly
"I'll see you later" he said as he walked away and through the portrait hole, Hermione followed soon after.
The day hadn't yet gone as complicated as Draco had expected, considering he hadn't really seen Hermione all day, never mind having to interact with her. Though his friends were acting quite odd. Blaise was making snide comments at him, Crabbe and Goyle wouldn't even look at him and they barely took his order, and Pansy just sat and stared at him as if she were analyzing whether he was a figment of her imagination. Draco only hardly noticed these odd behaviors, as his mind was somewhere else, thinking of Hermione.
"So how do you like you're new dorm?" asked Blaise at lunch that day, startling Draco out of his thoughts
"Oh, it's great. Cozy" he said taking a sip of pumpkin juice
"Did you just say cozy?" Blaise asked with a disgusted look
"Uh yeah, Her- the Mudblood says it a lot" he answered quickly
"Oh so you two are friends?" snapped Pansy from across the table "sounds as though she's rubbing. Off. On you" she said the last few worse slowly and intensely. Draco's eyebrows knitted together and his mouth grew into sort of look as though she were a moldy piece of chicken he was told to eat
"The hells the matter with you Parkinson" he asked snarling, "yeah I live with the girl, I'm bound to pick up some habits!"
"Oh so now she's a girl?" screeched Pansy with a shocked look
"Well she sure isn't a boy you bloody idiot" he spat almost defensively
"Oh I know you know that!" she cried grabbing her Charms book and storming out of the dinning hall.
"She's just jealous I'm sure, you getting to share a room with another girl" said Blaise eyeing Draco awaiting his response
"Yeah…" answered Draco without much thought "but I mean, she's a mudblood! Parkinson's got nothing to worry about, not that I'd be caught dead with a slag like Pansy anyways" Blaise nodded slowly at his answer.
Little did Draco know his friends saw right through that lie.
On the opposite side of the hall Hermione sat with Ron, Harry, and Ginny. Hermione, as well as her secret companion on the other side of the hall, was lost at thought of the other person. She kept going over the experience they shared together the night before. Hermione had allowed herself to lose control, and honestly, she enjoyed it.
"So how are you liking your new common room?" asked Ginny, shaking Hermione from her thoughts.
"Oh it's lovely. Very nice. Er- cozy" she answered with a tight grin
"And how's Malfoy?" asked Harry
"What?" gasped Hermione shooting her glare at him, the two boys across from her arched their eyebrows
"You know, is he being nice to you? Or a ferret faced git like always" asked Ron leaning in to whisper the last part as Hermione's screech had gotten the attention of professor Snape who happened to be walking by
"Oh, yes. Ferret faced git, a large git for sure" she said taking a large chug of pumpkin juice. "Um well I should be off! Time for class" she said scrambling to get her books. Hastily she got up from the table and walked quite fast to the entrance of the hall, where to her surprise she ran into one Draco Malfoy.
The two stopped to stare at each other for a moment, then quickly looked away as they didn't want anyone to notice their staring, so Draco loudly called her Mudblood and Hermione rolled her eyes storming off around the corner, giggling to herself because she knew what the others didn't. Draco rounded the corner she had hid into.
"I am so sorry" he told her desperately
"It's fine," she said with a smile "it was quite thrilling actually, pretending. Knowing a secret" she smiled and Draco returned the grin.
"Hey I wanted to ask" they both started at the same time
"My god how cheesy is that," said Hermione rolling her eyes, Draco snickered
"Well what I was going to say was, that I was wondering if tomorrow you would like to maybe sneak off somewhere, to have lunch together" said Draco nervously
"I was going to say the same!"
"Well excellent! We can make further arrangements tonight" Draco said with a wink leaning down to plant a soft gently kiss on Hermione's lips, she returned the kiss and slowly it grew more forcefully. Hermione pushed Draco away softly, she opened her eyes to meet confused expression and gorgeous warm grey eyes, she gave him a tight smile
"I'm afraid now is not the best time for that" she giggled blushing and Draco agreed, so the two set off opposite directions down the hall to their separate classes.